Given a chance to relive past will you make same choice to live in Thailand

[Rajnish]

Hi 

 

  The more content i read in this forum the more it makes me believe people are not happy after moving to Thailand, If given a chance to re-live your past would you still make same choice of moving to Thailand or would have gone for another country ??

[ubonjoe]

Not visa related. Moved to here.

[bangkokorbust]

The pathetic whiners will be miserable in any country.

Thailand has the full package while the rest of SE Asia has good bits here and there.

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[grollies]

''I got this dream about buying some land,

I'm gonna give up the booze and the one night stands,

And then I'll settle down,

In this quiet little town,

And forget about everything.....''

 

Thailand does it for me.

 

 

[xylophone]

Just now, grollies said:

''I got this dream about buying some land,

I'm gonna give up the booze and the one night stands,

And then I'll settle down,

In this quiet little town,

And forget about everything.....''

 

Thailand does it for me.

 

 

Ah, the words from a Gerry Rafferty song...........

 

The problem is of course that you can't buy land here; the nightlife ensures that booze is readily available and the one night stands are what this place is famous for!

 

Of course for me it has its benefits because I can live here for the rest of my life without working as the place is cheap and my dollars go further, and of course the weather stays warm.

 

The occasional foray into the nightlife to catch up with friends also suits and the fact that female company if wanted, is readily available also comes into the mix.

 

I try to focus on the above when corruption in its many forms rears its ugly head and unfortunately that's all too often, and of course, the propensity for telling lies under the guise of "saving face" so you never quite know where you are. Add to that the absolute stupidity with regards to lack of law and order, driving, common sense and the "you can't tell us anything because we know it all" mentality which seems to pervade much of society here.

 

Would I move here again.............. well yes, because of all the positives I mentioned above and when I focus on those, the negatives fade into the background (for a while anyway).

 

 

[partington]

I agree with above assessment except that  for me now the negatives outweigh the positives  by a largish margin.

 

The growing repressiveness of the current regime though it should be an irrelevant backdrop angers and depresses me to a point where I feel uneasy about even marginally supporting it all by staying here.

 

The major and minor corruptions, idiocies and incompetence, as they affect me directly, are more important.  Individual Thais are on the whole nice and pleasant, but this society...well.

 

Of course for me it was always going to be a trial period. That period is over and my choice is made. It's been fun but...soldiers in big hats telling you what you can see and read should have been over in the 1930's.

Edited March 10, 2017 by partington

[GarryP]

Hindsight is 20-20. I think most people regret something in their lives. Some of us were running away from something, although we did not realize it at the time. If I had my life again, I would not move to Thailand at the age of 19. But 35 years later and still here, I am happy with my lot now. 

 

You've got to learn to take the rough with the smooth.   

[Odysseus123]

6 hours ago, partington said:

I agree with above assessment except that  for me now the negatives outweigh the positives  by a largish margin.

 

The growing repressiveness of the current regime though it should be an irrelevant backdrop angers and depresses me to a point where I feel uneasy about even marginally supporting it all by staying here.

 

The major and minor corruptions, idiocies and incompetence, as they affect me directly, are more important.  Individual Thais are on the whole nice and pleasant, but this society...well.

 

Of course for me it was always going to be a trial period. That period is over and my choice is made. It's been fun but...soldiers in big hats telling you what you can see and read should have been over in the 1930's.

I have made my decision and am heading for home without fuss or fanfare.

 

Part of that is for medical reasons but the other part has to do with having to say no too many times to Thai people who make very bad business decisions without incorporating me in the decision making loop but then expect me to pick up the pieces for their laziness and lack of any sense of self responsibility for the result.

 

I don't think that I will become a negative critic of Thailand in my home country but I will pause and say.."Be careful....be very,very,careful."

 

After 6 years not a single member of this family has a full time job,despite private school,university or offers to send them on technical courses.I have a photo taken in 2011 of all the supposed students in this extended family aged between 15 and 20 and not one of them has ever sought full time,independent, employment.

Edited March 10, 2017 by Odysseus123

[Naam]

9 hours ago, Rajnish said:

If given a chance to re-live your past would you still make same choice of moving to Thailand

yes, i'd make the same choice again but 15 years earlier!

[whatawonderfulday]

Actually I wish I had had the opportunity to come to Thailand in the sixties rather than 20 years later. For one thing I think there was more potential business opportunities at that time if you were a foreigner and, so I am told, xenophobic attitude was much less apparent.PR was simpler to obtain too.

 

I am one of the biggest knockers on here about corruption issues but in my view it is no different in the UK. The only difference is they have had 400 years of regularised administration in order to make it much much more subtle.  A prime example is that this week George Osborn, the previous chancellor, is being paid £650,000 for 48 days work a year as a consultant for Blackrock. Not of course a current sitting MP would and a very recent ex chancellor would have any idea of the economic policies his own party are undertaking !!  Hope he can advise Blackrock of investment opportunities appropriately.  That is just one example of covert corruption by the UK prima donnas in my book, and whilst in Thailand you don't need to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth if your tongue is long enough to stick up certain peoples backsides, a silver spoon in the UK has the same advantages as Mason's handshake.

 

In Thailand of course you should fully understand you are a mere Farang, apart from the family and your local village of course where I am luckily 100% accepted but in the UK I now feel the foreigner. Last time I bothered to go back was 5 years ago and being white I felt the odd one out at Heathrow, and by the time I had checked in to my London hotel I could not be sure if I had inadvertently landed in Delhi or, given the lack of English understanding by the receptionist,  maybe it was Romania.

 

The plus side of course is that you can watch TV that actually caters for the adult mentality rather than the immature audiences of Thailand,  you can actual believe that the news is factual( well unless you have satellite and watch Fox News lies) and  of course it is nice you have real policeman and in the main a public who respect the rule of law. But on balance I know where I am happier and as I said wish I had come 20 years earlier.

 

No England is not home to me anymore.

 

 

Edited March 10, 2017 by whatawonderfulday

[partington]

12 minutes ago, whatawonderfulday said:

Actually I wish I had had the opportunity to come to Thailand in the sixties rather than 20 years later. For one thing I think there was more potential business opportunities at that time if you were a foreigner and, so I am told, xenophobic attitude was much less apparent.  

[ .....]

Last time I bothered to go back was 5 years ago and being white I felt the odd one out at Heathrow, and by the time I had checked in to my London hotel I could not be sure if I had inadvertently landed in Delhi or, given the lack of English understanding by the receptionist,  maybe it was Romania.

 

Maybe they learnt xenophobia from somewhere...

Edited March 10, 2017 by partington

[whatawonderfulday]

9 minutes ago, partington said:

Maybe they learnt xenophobia from somewhere...

No Trump was not in public life then. Anyway difficult for Thais to learn anything,  usually everything is inborn instinct or superstition, or so I tell my wife.  And by the way , no scissors in our house

[Rc2702]

2 hours ago, whatawonderfulday said:

Actually I wish I had had the opportunity to come to Thailand in the sixties rather than 20 years later. For one thing I think there was more potential business opportunities at that time if you were a foreigner and, so I am told, xenophobic attitude was much less apparent.PR was simpler to obtain too.

 

I am one of the biggest knockers on here about corruption issues but in my view it is no different in the UK. The only difference is they have had 400 years of regularised administration in order to make it much much more subtle.  A prime example is that this week George Osborn, the previous chancellor, is being paid £650,000 for 48 days work a year as a consultant for Blackrock. Not of course a current sitting MP would and a very recent ex chancellor would have any idea of the economic policies his own party are undertaking !!  Hope he can advise Blackrock of investment opportunities appropriately.  That is just one example of covert corruption by the UK prima donnas in my book, and whilst in Thailand you don't need to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth if your tongue is long enough to stick up certain peoples backsides, a silver spoon in the UK has the same advantages as Mason's handshake.

 

In Thailand of course you should fully understand you are a mere Farang, apart from the family and your local village of course where I am luckily 100% accepted but in the UK I now feel the foreigner. Last time I bothered to go back was 5 years ago and being white I felt the odd one out at Heathrow, and by the time I had checked in to my London hotel I could not be sure if I had inadvertently landed in Delhi or, given the lack of English understanding by the receptionist,  maybe it was Romania.

 

The plus side of course is that you can watch TV that actually caters for the adult mentality rather than the immature audiences of Thailand,  you can actual believe that the news is factual( well unless you have satellite and watch Fox News lies) and  of course it is nice you have real policeman and in the main a public who respect the rule of law. But on balance I know where I am happier and as I said wish I had come 20 years earlier.

 

No England is not home to me anymore.

 

 

Very astute obs. Just a lot more subtle.